79. Proof of execution of document required by law to be attested. If a document is required by law to be attested, it shall not be used as evidence until two attesting witnesses at least have been called for the purpose of proving its execution, if there be two attesting witnesses alive, and subject to the process of the Court and capable of giving evidence:
Provided that it shall not be necessary to call an attesting witness in proof of the execution of any document, not being a will, which has been registered in accordance with the provisions of the Registration Act, 1908 (XVI of 1908), unless its execution by the person by whom it purports to have been executed is specifically denied.

80. Proof where no attesting witness found. If no such attesting witness can be found, it must be proved that the witness have either died, or cannot be found and that the document was executed by the person who purports to have done so.

81. Admission of execution by party to attested document. The admission of a party to an attested document of its execution by himself shall be sufficient proof of its execution as against him, though it be a document required by law to be attested. 

82. Proof when attesting witness denies the execution. If the attesting witness denies or does not recollect the execution of the document, its execution may be proved by other evidence.

83. Proof of document not required by law to be attested. An attested document not required by law to be attested may be proved as if it was un-attested.

84. Comparison of signature, writing or seal with others admitted or proved. (1) In order to ascertain whether a signature, writing or seal is that of the person by whom it purports to have been written or made any signature, writing or seal admitted or proved to the satisfaction of the Court to have been written or made by that person may be compared with the one which is to be proved, although that signature, writing or seal has not been produced or proved for any other purpose.

(2) The Court may direct any person present in Court to write any words or figures for the purpose of enabling the Court to compare the words or figures so written with any words or figures alleged to have been written by such person.

(3) This Article applies also, with any necessary modifications, to finger-impressions.

85. Public documents. The following documents are public documents: ---

(1) documents forming the acts or records of the acts---

(i) of the sovereign authority;

(ii) of official bodies and tribunals; and

(iii) of public officers, legislative, judicial and executive, of any part of Pakistan, or of a foreign country;

(2) public records kept in Pakistan of private documents;

(3) documents forming part of the records of judicial proceedings;

(4) documents required to be maintained by a public servant under any law; and

(5) registered documents the execution whereof is not disputed.

86. Private documents. All other documents are private.

87. Certified copies of public documents. Every public officer having the custody of a public document, which any person has a right to inspect, shall give that person on demand a copy of it on payment of the legal fees therefore, together with a certificate written at the foot of such copy that it is a true copy of such document or part thereof, as the case may be, and such certificate shall be dated and subscribed by such officer with his name and his official title, and shall be sealed, whenever such officer is authorized by law to make use of a seal, and such copies so certified shall be called certified copies.

Explanation. Any officer, who, by the ordinary course of official duty, is authorized to deliver such copies, shall be deemed to have the custody of such documents within the meaning of this Article.

88. Proof of documents by production of certified copies. Such certified copies may be produced in proof of the contents of the public documents or parts of the public documents of which they purport to be copies.

89. Proof of other public documents. The following public documents may be proved as follows: --

(1) Acts, orders or notifications of the Federal Government in any of its departments, or of any Provincial Government or any department of any Provincial Government by the records of the departments, certified by the Heads of those departments respectively, or by any document purporting to be printed by order of any such Government;

(2) the proceedings of the Legislatures,-- by the journal of those bodies respectively, or by published Acts or abstracts, or by copies purporting to be printed by order of the Government concerned;

(3) the Acts of the Executive or the proceedings of the Legislature of a foreign country,-- by journals published by their authority, or commonly received in that country as such or by a copy certified under the seal of the country or sovereign, or by a recognition thereof in some Federal Act;

(4) the proceedings of a municipal body in Pakistan,-- by a copy of such proceedings certified by the legal keeper thereof, or by a printed book purporting to be published by the authority of such body;

(5) public documents of any other class in a foreign country,- by the original, or by a copy certified by the legal keeper thereof, with a certificate under the seal of a notary public, or of a Pakistan Consul or diplomatic agent, that the copy is duly certified by the officer having the legal custody of the original, and upon proof of the character of the document according to the law of foreign country.

PRESUMPTION AS TO DOCUMENTS

90. Presumption as to genuineness of certified copies. (1) The Court shall presume every document purporting to be a certificate, certified copy or other document, which is by law declared to be admissible as evidence of any particular fact and which purports to be duly certified by any officer of the Federal Government or a Provincial Government to be genuine:

Provided that such document is substantially in the form and purports to be executed in the manner directed by law in that behalf.

(2) The Court shall also presume that any officer by whom any such document purports to be signed or certified, held, when he signed it, the official character which he claims in such document.

91. Presumption as to documents produced as record of evidence. Whenever any document is produced before any Court, purporting to be a record or memorandum of the evidence, or of any part of the evidence, given by a witness is a judicial proceeding or before any officer authorized by law to take such evidence or to be a statement or confession by any prisoner or accused person, taken in accordance with law, and purporting to be signed by the Judge or Magistrate or by any such officer as aforesaid, the Court shall presume---

that the document is genuine; that any statements as to the circumstances under which it was taken, purporting to be made by the person signing it, are true, and that such evidence, statement or confession was duly taken.

92. Presumption as to genuineness of documents kept under any law. The Court shall presume the genuineness of every document purporting to be a document directed by any law to be kept by any person, if such document is kept substantially in the form required by law and is produced from proper custody.

93. Presumption as to maps or plans made by authority of Government. The Court shall presume that maps or plans purporting to be made by the authority of the Federal Government or any Provincial Government were so made, and are accurate; but maps or plans made for the purposes of any cause must be proved to be accurate.

94. Presumption as to collections of laws and reports of decision. The Court shall presume the genuineness of every book purporting to be printed or published under the authority of the Government of any country, and to contain any of the laws of that country, and of every book purporting to contain reports of decision of the Courts of such country.

95. Presumption as to powers-of-attorney. The Court shall presume that every document purporting to be a power-of-attorney, and to have been executed before, and authenticated by, a notary public, or any Court, Judge, Magistrate, Pakistan Consul or Vice-Consul, or representative of the Federal Government, was so executed and authenticated.

96. Presumption as to certified copies of foreign judicial records. (1) The Court may presume that any document purporting to be a certified copy of any judicial record of any country not forming part of Pakistan is genuine and accurate, if the document purports to be certified in any manner which is certified by any representative of the Federal Government in or for such country to be the manner commonly in use in that country for the certification of copies of judicial records.

(2) An officer who, with respect to any territory or place not forming part of Pakistan, is a Political Agent therefore, as defined in section 3, clause (40), of the General Clauses Act, 1897 (X of 1897), shall for the purposes of clause (1), be deemed to be a representative of the Federal Government in or for the country comprising that territory or place.

97. Presumption as to books, maps and charts. The Court may presume that any book to which it may refer for information on matters of public or general interest, and that any published map or chart, the statements or which are relevant facts and which is produced for its inspection, was written and published by the person, and at the time and place, by whom or at which it purports to have been written or published.

98. Presumption as to telegraphic messages. The Court may presume that message, forwarded from a telegraph office to the person to whom such message purports to be addressed, corresponds with a message delivered for transmission at the office from which the message purports to be sent; but the Court shall not make any presumption as to the person by whom such message was delivered for transmission.

99. presumption as to due execution, etc., of documents not produced. The Court shall presume that every document, called for and produced after notice to produce, was attested, stamped and executed in the manner required by law.